Nuala O'malley
1918
1650. Ireland bleeds. After the fall of Drogheda, a wounded nobleman rides through a burned and silent land, his shoulder torn open, his horse half-dead beneath him. This is Brian Buidh, last of the O'Neills, and he has escaped death only to find himself in a world where every mile west is a gamble with fate. When a mysterious hag called the Black Woman crosses his path in the darkness, she speaks of destiny and a woman named Nuala O'Malley, and Brian understands that survival alone is not enough - he must claim something worth living for. What follows is a tale of bloody roads, strange alliances, and a dangerous love that blooms against the backdrop of Cromwell's conquest. Bedford-Jones writes with the筋骨 of a man who knows historical fiction should hurt: his Ireland is raw, its villages still smoking, its people hardened by massacre. This is adventure in the old mode, where swords are bare and hearts are gambled freely, set in one of history's most brutal episodes.
